Coat-tail vent construction



A. G. P E INE. COAT TAIL VENT CONSTRUCTION. APPLICATION FILED- MAY 10, 1920.

1 3 9 5 4 Patented Jan. 10, 192 2.

ADOLPI-IUS G. PEINE, OI? CHIGAGQILLINOIS, ASSIG'NDB TO ALFRED DECKER & GOEN,

INC, OF CHL'C'AGU, ILLINOIS,

A CORPURATION OF ILLINOIS.

GOAT-TAIL vn'nr CONSTRUCTION.

icense.

Application filed May 10, 1920. Serial No. 380,047.

To aZZ whom it may cone-em:

Be it known that I, AnoLri-ms (in PnrNE, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in CoatTail Vent Construction, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to coats, more particularly to those which are only partially lined, or which have a so-called skeleton lining, so that a considerable area in the back of the coat isunlined. this kind, having a vent in the coat-tails thereof, some difliculty has been experienced, the said vent having a tendency to spread or gape when the coat is being worn.

Generally stated, therefore, the object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved construction whereby, in a partially lined or so-called skeleton lined coat of this character, the said vent is lined or faced in side with cloth, such as the cloth of the garment itself, instead of being lined or faced with silk or any of the other materials ordinarily employed for such purposes, whereby the vent is prevented from gaping or spreading while the coat is being worn.

To these and other useful ends the invention consists in matters hereinafter set forth and claimed and shown in the accompanying drawings, in whicl1- Fig. 1 is a front view of a partially lined or so-called skeleton lined coat having a vent in the coat-tails thereof, embodying the principles of the invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged inside view of said vent, with certain portions broken away for convenience of illustration, and to show the way in which the different sections of cloth are put together.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the inside flap on line 38 in Fig. 2.

Fig. t is an enlarged outside view of the vent, showing the outer flap thereof lifted or turned to one side.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged horizontal section on line 5-5 in Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged horizontal section on line 6--6 in Fig. 2.

As thus illustrated, the coat may be of any suitable form or style, and is only partially lined, being what is ordinarily known, as previously stated, as a skeleton lined coat, which will be readily understood. Therefore a considerable area or inside surface In a coat of of the coat remains unlined, in the back and around the skirts of the coat, so that the area around the vent l is unlined.

The said vent comprises an outside flap 2 or portion of the cloth of the garment and an inside flap or portion of the garment 3, one flap overlapping the other, in the usual manner. The back of the coat has the cloth turned in to form a center seam a which terminates at the top of the vent, and the turned in cloth at one side of this scam is extendeddownward, a little wider, to form the fold 5 of the outside flap 2, this fold being left loose along its edge, and this edge being provided with smooth edging 6 of any suitable character, so that a recess is formed between the flap and the outside cloth or body of the garment. Some stiffening '7 is stitched in place in the outer edge of the fold 5, as shown in Fig. 5, in any suitable manner. The inner flap 3 is faced or lined with a section 8 of cloth, such as the cloth of the garment itself, this section 8 having its vertical edges provided with smooth edging 9 and 10, and being left free at its inner edge 9, so that a fairly deep recess is formed between the section 8 and the cloth of the garment itself, as shown in the drawings. It will be seen that the edging 6 and 9 extend upward along the edges of the turned in cloth at opposite sides of the center seam at at the back of the coat. The extra section 8 of'cloth is displaced later ally, it will be seen, as the vertical. center line of the coat back is at 7, whereby the weight thus formed by the section 8 is nearer one side of the coat than the other.

Thus, as shown in Fig. 5, the vent comprises four thicknesses of the cloth from which the garment is made and the edges have smooth edging thereon, so that they do not catch on the cloth but slide readily thereon, or on the cloth of the vest or trousers of the wearer, while the coat is being worn. The lower edge portion of the skirt of the coat is turned up to provide a fold 11, this fold overlapping the two recesses formed in the vent, and the upper edge of the fold being provided with smooth edging 12, and being stitched in place on the inner surface of the garment.

With this construction, the vent is weighted by a facing 8 of the cloth from which the garment is made, and by the fold 5 previously mentioned, with the result that it hangs straight and does not tend' to gape or spread or get out of shape while the coat is being worn.

hat I claim as my invention is 1. In a coat-tail vent for partially or socalled skeleton lined coats, in combination with the cloth of the garment providing inwar and outer portions Which overlap to form the vent for the coat, having an unlined area around the vent, a section of the same kind of cloth secured along one vertical edge thereof to the edge of said inner portion, so that this extra section of cloth is displaced laterally and nearer one side of the coat than the other, thereby to weight the vent and make it hang straight, the other vertical edge of said cloth section being left free.

' 2. A coat-tail vent construction as specified in claim 1, said outer cloth portion be- ,ing turned in to form a fold having the edge thereof left free, so that the vent is formed by four thicknesses of the cloth of the garment, with an open recess between the outer two thicknesses, and a larger open recess between the inner two thicknesses, smooth edging on the vertical edges of the inner recess, and smooth edging-on the free edge of said fold, the said cloth being turned up at the bottom to overlap said recesses, and the back of the coat having a vertical center seam that extends downward and terminates at the upper end of said vents, with the cloth turned in at opposite sides of the seam and said edging of the vent, continuing upward along the edge of said turned in cloth.

3. A coat-tail vent as specified in claim 1, the back of the coat having a center seam which terminates at the top of the vent, both vertical edges of said cloth section being edged with smooth material. a

4. A coat-tail vent as specified in claim 1, said outer cloth portion being turned in to form a fold the edge of which is left free and edged with smooth material.

ADOLPHUS. s. PEINEQ 

